Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 311
14 July 1907 311 the real and true cure for remaining safe from this disease is that people should turn to God Almighty. At that time two officers came to Qadian to dispense injections, one British and the other an indigent officer who was of the IAC. At that time I had sent him a copy of my book. The indigent officer read it to the Englishman. Listening to it, the Englishman said that what is written in this book is, in fact, the truth. The rest are all excuses. The real cure is this. In short, God shows mercy to the one who fears Him. I am distressed how I can put these things into the hearts of the peo- ple as these are heavenly and spiritual matters, and the earthly people cannot understand them. This punishment will not come to an end yet until people reform themselves. The wrath of God Almighty will continue to descend on them. Nothing can be achieved merely through these physical devices, whether rats are exterminated, or mosquitoes or crows. How can people be shown mercy unless they bow down before God? It was written about a village that it had become completely deserted. It is learnt from ancient scriptures that the plague wiped out city after city in some places, and when all the people had died, then this disease infected the animals and when they all had died, then it affected the snakes of the jungle and there was left only barren land after they had died. For hundreds of miles, all signs and traces of life were erased. There is no way out except for the mercy of God. God shows mercy to those people who incline towards Him with a sorrowful heart, and He pro- tects them from every evil. I have been told by God Almighty that a more virulent wave of the disease is yet to strike. I cannot say whether the greater severity will strike next year, or whether the greater severity will strike after a year of ease. Nevertheless, the future plague is far more virulent than the previous one. Similarly, I have also been told by God Almighty that a devastating earthquake is yet to